Simon Diamond

Photographer and musician. Also have CFS/ME. It sucks.
#ShittyCameraChallenge Champion 👑
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2024-10-05 22:18:57

Wavy line.
Hasselblad 501C
Zeiss Makro-Planar T* 120mm F4
CineStill 400D
Tetenal C-41 kit
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2024-07-02 20:05:46

Our favourite little botanist, ornithologist and beard puller is 1 year old today, and officially the cutest being in the known universe. I am of course completely unbiased❤️❤️❤️🥳🥳🥳🎂🎂🎂
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2024-07-01 22:43:07

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@npub17sh…6e06 Two negatives equals a positive, ergo I remember everything.

2024-07-01 06:47:20

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@npub17sh…6e06 Yes, I have an excellent memory😁

2024-06-30 22:27:15

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@npub17sh…6e06 Neat! That takes me back to my college days😄

2024-03-14 21:09:37

From twitter:
An old favourite for this week's #ilfordphoto #fridayfavourites #sheshootsilford2024
I love this photo of my wife drinking tea early in the morning😄 The morning light in Copenhagen is special and so is she!
Leica M6
Voigtländer Nokton 35mm F1.4
Ilford HP5
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2024-03-14 20:05:50

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@npub1hu7…4g0d Very nice shot!

2024-03-13 23:16:38

Blue.
#LeicaQ2 #photography
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2024-03-12 23:12:53

Frankfurt Frühling.
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2023-09-30 23:08:52

Night roses.
Leica M6
Voigtländer Nokton 50mm F1
Fujifilm Provia 400F (expired & cross processed)
FPP C-41 kit
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2023-09-03 08:38:58

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@npub17sh…6e06 Thank you very much, my friend! I will remember that and try to keep it for as long as I can😂

2023-09-03 04:21:53

40.
Situation report: Hair keeps growing.
#40 #hair #birthday
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2023-08-31 08:25:49

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@npub17sh…6e06 Simon says no. Anyway, that seal is clearly one of my kind😄

2023-08-31 06:32:29

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@npub17sh…6e06 Simon says yes, I am.

2023-08-31 06:22:06

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@npub17sh…6e06 Joke's on you, I didn't dress today.

2023-08-31 06:12:12

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@npub17sh…6e06 Yep☹️

2023-08-31 04:46:06

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@npub17sh…6e06 Not much else to say or do, it just sucks big time. The only hope I have is that people might finally start to take climate change seriously. There's a local election in a few weeks here, we'll see what happens.

2023-08-31 04:08:08

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@npub17sh…6e06 It's just depressing what's happed here in the last few week. The more or less perpetual rain after the Hans event ends up causing higher floods than Hans itself!😩 It's by far the worst natural disaster in my lifetime. Billions in damage. And a lot of places are now very prone to avalanches because the ground has been weakened, so this just plain sucks.

2023-08-31 03:45:31

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@npub17sh…6e06 I was already teased by the clouds covering the moon.

2023-08-30 23:36:09

Black summer.
Leica M6 TTL
Summicron 50mm F2 (non-asph)
@lomography '92 400
FPP C-41 kit
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2023-08-30 08:38:48

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@npub17sh…6e06 I lived in Copenhagen for a while. It's not that much further south, but it's enough to notice a big difference in the daylight.

2023-08-30 05:35:01

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@npub17sh…6e06 A lot of people do, I know several. It does make you really appreciate spring though, that's for sure.

2023-08-30 04:27:28

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@npub17sh…6e06 No, not in Oslo. But it's a sort of dim version of daylight in the middle of winter. Feels kinda like evening for a couple of hours in the middle of the day, and then it gets dark again. It's pitch black when people go to school/work, and pitch black when they go home again. Bit further north than Trondheim, you get the perpetual darkness and no sun. Way up north, the sun doesn't rise for months.

2023-08-24 23:41:10

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@npub17sh…6e06 That would be snooze in my case😴

2023-08-24 04:32:02

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@npub17sh…6e06 I saw that! Apparently, the viking enjoyed board games a lot. They keep finding game stuff😄

2023-08-24 02:33:34

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@npub17sh…6e06 As it should be!😄 Rain was back and brought some thunder and lightning with it today. Inside weather. Hopefully going out tomorrow.

2023-08-24 01:24:08

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@npub17sh…6e06 Yes, I am😄 She's working on her evil genius grin, it's looking promising.

2023-08-23 04:49:50

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@npub17sh…6e06 Well we're both artists, so rebellion for her would be... sports and academia?🤣

2023-08-23 03:28:55

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@npub17sh…6e06 There are no Norse flood gods😂 Maybe try buying a new hammer for Thor? I'm sure he'd appreciate that, his current one must be thousands of years old. Besides my li'l diamond seems rather fond of me so far, and I think she'd like to have me around for years to come😄

2023-08-22 22:39:56

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@npub17sh…6e06 Only dumb people and people with vitiligo get sunburned. And vampires, I guess😂 One of the main tunnels in and out of Oslo is still closed, actually. Still floods all across Norway. It's the worst I've seen in my lifetime, that's for sure.

2023-08-22 07:55:12

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@npub17sh…6e06 Yep. We'll get at least one more day of decent weather before the rain returns again.
I have an autoimmune disease called vitiligo (it causes the immune system to kill the pigment cells in your body), so I can't go out in the sun much. But I do enjoy the evenings.

2023-08-22 05:10:48

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@npub17sh…6e06 Floods got even worse again after the latest rainstorm, so now you can't get from Oslo to Trondheim at all, except by airplane. This is getting tiresome, even for weathered old scruffy Norwegian vikings like myself😒 The weather down south was nice today though.

2023-08-21 06:49:29

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@npub17sh…6e06 Yep! According to the weather report, we're getting two whole days without rain🤪

2023-08-20 03:46:07

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@npub17sh…6e06 It doesn't look promising for LA right now, I hope it doesn't get too bad. We're used to rain here, but Norway is big and sparsely populated. So we have a lot of infrastructure per capita here, to put it that way. Internet and electricity is still kinda fragile out in the countryside during bad weather events. And it usually takes a while to fix.

2023-08-20 02:33:44

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@npub17sh…6e06 The storm never really got that far south, so I hope not. But there's always a chance the water levels will increase again. Not exactly ideal to get this now! It's really pouring down, so the internet and/or electricity might cut out. It happens sometimes out here in countryside with heavy rain.

2023-08-19 23:29:21

Wild wood.
Mamiya 6MF
Mamiya 6 G 75mm F3.5 L
Kodak Portra 400
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2023-08-19 21:57:11

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@npub17sh…6e06 Just as well, the weather is abysmal here and I haven't been able to go out and shoot photos today. Thor must dislike World Photography Day for some reason. He's in a right mood at the moment.

2023-08-18 19:52:18

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@npub1hu7…4g0d Thank you!

2023-08-18 06:34:16

Ilford isn't on here, but I'm posting this anyway:
Celebrating world photography day with some of my favourite #ilfordphoto shots. Shooting long exposures at night with Ortho 80 is a firm favourite!
Nikon FE
Nikkor 20mm F2.8 & 85mm F1.4
Ilford Ortho Plus 80
#fridayfavourites #wpdonilford #believeinfilm #WorldPhotographyDay
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2023-08-18 00:09:53

Norwegian spruce this time. Couldn't come up with a good rhyme.
Mamiya 6MF
Mamiya 6 G 75mm F3.5 L
Kodak Portra 400
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2023-08-17 06:40:54

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@npub17sh…6e06 Don't have any on this laptop, maybe it's a job for the next roll! It's not mine though, so I'm not gonna post photos of it unless it's ok with my in-laws.

2023-08-17 05:18:58

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@npub17sh…6e06 Yes. Shielded by a mountain on one side, and enormous trees on the other sides.

2023-08-17 02:22:38

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@npub17sh…6e06 Exactly! You can see how the cabins are all carefully placed in the terrain to shield from the wind.

2023-08-17 00:21:57

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@npub17sh…6e06 They're well hidden! You kinda have to with the constant wind in from the North Sea, unless you like repainting your cabin every other year or so😆

2023-08-16 23:11:45

Isn't it fine, Norwegian pine.
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Kodak Portra 400
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2023-08-16 01:35:59

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@npub17sh…6e06 There are literally thousands on my Instagram🤪

2023-08-16 01:21:30

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@npub17sh…6e06 I post one every day, you haven't been paying attention!😂 There's a pine theme this week. We have loads of them around here.

2023-08-15 23:54:36

Among the living.
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Mamiya 6 G 150mm F4.5
Kodak Portra 400
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2023-08-15 23:52:45

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@npub17sh…6e06 I'm in a dry cabin, drinking coffee. It's a good plan and I'm executing it well.

2023-08-15 03:59:25

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@npub17sh…6e06 Sadly, no😣 Several bridges have collapsed, both road and rail.

2023-08-15 00:32:55

The mythical and enigmatic bokeh pine.
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2023-08-14 03:39:49

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@npub17sh…6e06 Oh, I don't know about that. It worked for Picasso!

2023-08-14 01:15:42

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@npub17sh…6e06 Agreed!

2023-08-14 00:17:41

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@npub17sh…6e06 Thanks! It's the evening sun, but the forest in the background is in the shadows, of course. Being up on a mountain looking down makes for interesting perspectives.

2023-08-13 23:21:45

Living on the edge.
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Mamiya 6 G 150mm F4.5
Kodak Portra 400
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2023-08-12 23:22:23

I do love some nice textures on film.
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Mamiya 6 G 150mm F4.5
Kodak Portra 160
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2023-08-12 13:27:27

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@npub17sh…6e06 Hungry!

2023-08-12 08:09:14

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@npub17sh…6e06 Nothing here is hot at the moment, I can assure you that🥶

2023-08-11 23:26:24

Happy Caturday😸
#Caturday #LeicaQ2
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2023-08-11 20:28:42

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@npub17sh…6e06 Not much of a sleep talker, but I have been known to sleep with my eyes open😱

2023-08-11 20:20:30

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@npub17sh…6e06 I never said that!

2023-08-11 08:35:22

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@npub17sh…6e06 No, not as bad. Sweden got hit too, but not Finland as far as I'm aware.

2023-08-11 06:33:31

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@npub17sh…6e06 This mostly concerns the inland parts of Norway, so it's not easy. The landscape is very harsh and there are mountains everywhere. Most people live in the valleys that are now flooded. Difficult situation!

2023-08-11 06:16:21

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@npub17sh…6e06 A lot of places are left without any connection to the rest of the country right now. The worst areas have been evacuated, but that will definitely be a problem in the coming weeks. It will have to be done by helicopter if the roads are shut for longer periods. The military will probably help.

2023-08-11 05:45:33

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@npub17sh…6e06 Yeah, this is the worst one I've ever experienced. And it's gonna take months to get everything going again. All the major roads and railways between Oslo and Trondheim are closed due to damage now. Some places the road just straight up vanished and sank into the river.

2023-08-11 04:12:09

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@npub17sh…6e06 Only increasing so far. The water level will probably reach its peak today.

2023-08-11 01:20:12

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@npub17sh…6e06 Oslo had some flooding, but we were extremely lucky this time. Drammen is just a 30 minute car ride from here.

2023-08-11 00:47:43

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@npub17sh…6e06 It's not happening in Oslo, thankfully. It's happening in a city called Drammen, which is the second biggest city after Oslo in this part of Norway. We have family there and we're kinda worried right now. Most of the city centre is close to the river. Could be really bad. We'll see tomorrow and the day after.

2023-08-10 22:48:14

Tuft.
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Mamiya 6 G 150mm F4.5
Kodak Portra 160
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2023-08-10 22:33:39

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@npub17sh…6e06 The flooding is just starting, unfortunately. All that water has to go out to sea now. The largest city in eastern Norway apart from Oslo is on course for a "1000 year flood" tomorrow, so it's not over yet. The destruction is immense. Worst I've seen in Norway in my lifetime, that's for sure.

2023-08-09 23:09:00

Current mood.
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2023-08-09 19:27:57

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@npub17sh…6e06 As long as pretzels exist, there's no chance of that😂

2023-08-09 05:53:56

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@npub17sh…6e06 Always have a few days of dry food... and beer.

2023-08-09 05:22:14

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@npub17sh…6e06 No danger, we live a few metres from the nearest cornershop. A few pounds could disappear, actually. I'd be ok with that!😁

2023-08-09 04:06:33

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@npub17sh…6e06 After that Die Hard movie, I think most Norwegians caught on to Simon Says😂 I doesn't sound quite as cool in Norwegian though.

2023-08-08 22:43:05

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@npub17sh…6e06 There are only infants and adults in our building, actually! I'll get on it when they start talking.

2023-08-08 22:07:34

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@npub17sh…6e06 No😂 I think I learned that from "Die Hard With a Vengeance".

2023-08-08 20:12:41

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@npub17sh…6e06 Same😐

2023-08-08 19:52:21

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2023-08-08 19:49:03

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@npub17sh…6e06 I'm not nutritious enough for that.

2023-08-08 19:48:28

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@npub17sh…6e06 Yes, probably. But there's not really any way of travelling to Oslo right now. The roads and train tracks are flooded/destroyed. Lillehammer is probably gonna be a refuge. It's the biggest city in the "eye of the storm" and most of it is a bit higher up and slightly protected from the floods. People are being evacuated by helicopter everywhere.

2023-08-08 17:49:59

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@npub17sh…6e06 Oslo only has one big flooding river, but entire towns are flooded further north right now. It's really bad.

2023-08-08 08:30:04

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@npub17sh…6e06 Yep😐 Looks like we sorta dodged it here in Oslo, at least the worst of it. There are floods here too, just not as bad as further north.

2023-08-07 22:58:20

Cloud veil.
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Kodak Portra 400
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2023-08-06 23:39:41

Box speed Portra😁
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2023-08-05 23:06:40

Wifey🥰 Gotta get that hot shoe fixed for some fill-in flash😄
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2023-08-04 22:57:11

Surrender to the cuddles😸
#Caturday #LeicaCL
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2023-08-03 23:16:03

There's always that one tree.
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